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FYi: latest cPanel update causing major problems for FP2003 generated sites

 
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FYi: latest cPanel update causing major problems for FP... - 8/23/2005 3:15:16   
Hi everybody,

the latest cPanel version seems to have a bug that is causing major problems with FP generated sites.

see http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=42067

So far not many hosting companies have updated their system, but this is going to hit like a bomb once they do and FP2003 generated sites start falling apart.

I just hope they come up with a fix soon
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RE: FYi: latest cPanel update causing major problems fo... - 8/23/2005 3:45:12   
You need to be logged in to see that thread unfortunately

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RE: FYi: latest cPanel update causing major problems fo... - 8/23/2005 4:48:22   
I had a look at the thread - there certainly seems to be something going on but they don't seemed to have pinned it down to a cause yet.

Some of the posts:

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Over the past couple of days, FrontPage 2003 has suddenly started changing all my websites' home page file names from index.htm to index.html when publishing them to my server. In other words, the file names are not being changed locally on my PC, but they are being changed on the remote server as the files are being transfered.

In searching for information on this, it seems to be the consensus that something has happened to the FP extensions on my server, so I reinstalled FP using the following:

rpm -q frontpage
chattr -R -i /usr/local/frontpage
rpm -e frontpage
/scripts/updatenow
/scripts/updatefrontpage

After reinstalling FP, I updated, all server and system software (including Apache), rebooted both my PC and my server (RHEL 3, WHM 10.3.1, cPanel 10.4.0-C160, WHM X v3.1.0), uninstalled and reinstalled FP extensions on my websites, and retried publishing FP sites with the same result (i.e. index.htm still changes to index.html on the remote server).

There is also a suggestion on some forums that FP is sensing that my server default home page is index.html, so it is changing it for that reason. Given that I made no such changes to my server's defaults prior to this happening, does anyone have any idea what I need to do to correct this problem or work around it?


quote:

We have the same problem. Started about a week or so ago. The only thing I can see is that each user has a postinfo.html in their www/public_html and it seems that is the file that tells the users FP what to post as.

I dont know if it is suddenly being adhered to or if cpanel updates did something to make
it used. I havent updated Apache on this server in a long time so I imagine it could be something CPanel is doing with FP stuff.



quote:

Yes, I looked at the postinfo.html too and even changed its default from index.html to index.htm, but it didn't help. Somewhere, I assume, there's a setting that has been changed, but it's the needle and haystack routine that I'm trying to avoid. Btw, I have my server setup to do automatic CURRENT TREE updates, so I'm wondering if those updates might have done something weird to the configuration files or FP extensions.


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Lovely. It now appears to be doing this in the release tree. Anybody have a clue as to why frontpage would suddenly start acting this way?


That's pretty much it so far.

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RE: FYi: latest cPanel update causing major problems fo... - 8/23/2005 5:02:11   
I spoke to my own Hosts (UKWSD who I can heartilly recommend) and they said this:

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In that thread there are a few cpanel users with a FP issue but cPanel support are aware of that so it is probably fixed in new builds (not that their changelog is very detailed). As I said none of our customers have reported anything so we can't have used the effected builds.


So it seems that this might be a case of an individual build gone wrong? Do they do loads of different builds like FF? Makes it sound like some hosts would be affected while others won't depending on which build they get. That is of course assuming it's a CPanel problem in the first place.

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RE: FYi: latest cPanel update causing major problems fo... - 8/23/2005 12:49:35   
Some of my sites are built in FP and ever since my hosting company updated cPanel they "fall apart" when I update them.

The first thing that happens when I upload ever since the update is that the index.htm file becomes index.html on the server or is dublicated so that there are two index files. On some of the sites I now have half of the page navigations point to index.htm while the other points at index.html ... it's a nightmare!

Last night I was told by my hosting company that they came up with a fix. But so far it hasn't been applied to my sites

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RE: FYi: latest cPanel update causing major problems fo... - 8/23/2005 13:23:03   
What cPanel version is being ran? Stable, release, current, or edge?

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RE: FYi: latest cPanel update causing major problems fo... - 8/23/2005 13:56:59   
the new version that started the mess is cPanel 10.2.0-S83 ... that's at least what it shows me when I log in

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RE: FYi: latest cPanel update causing major problems fo... - 8/23/2005 15:38:01   
I'll bug Nick whenever he gets back on MSN. Suprised there isn't an update to this already.

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RE: FYi: latest cPanel update causing major problems fo... - 8/23/2005 16:31:49   
please keep us updated if you hear anything

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RE: FYi: latest cPanel update causing major problems fo... - 8/23/2005 19:21:17   
I will. Someone mentioned that it might be a problem with FP03 and its latest update. Do you know if anyone has tried this in FP 02?

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RE: FYi: latest cPanel update causing major problems fo... - 8/23/2005 22:25:44   
i don't think i have FP02 anymore.

do you think it would do the trick if I would rename my local files to html instead of htm and overwrite the files that are currently on the server.

would this affect FP created forms, etc?

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RE: FYi: latest cPanel update causing major problems fo... - 8/23/2005 22:31:09   
I just thought about that ... I can't rename every single page to .html because many of them are listed on search engines as .htm

do you think it would work if i rename the index to .html and keep the other pages .htm?

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RE: FYi: latest cPanel update causing major problems fo... - 8/23/2005 23:58:08   
I'll do some testing tomorrow when I get a chance. I wouldn't rename every page, but in your situation you might be able to use .html for your local viewing, and use .htaccess to rewrite the URL so it displays html as htm :)

FP will work fine, and you won't have to worry about SEO.

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